Company Description
H&M is a fashion brand that offers the latest styles and inspiration, from fashion pieces and unique designer collaborations to affordable wardrobe essentials. Our business idea is fashion & quality at the best price in a sustainable way. Learn more about H & M here.
Job Description
We are looking for an experienced creative & talented Print Designer to join our Boys wear Division working with both the kids' customer (age 3-8) as well as the young customer (age 9-14). This is an exciting opportunity to maximize your potential and develop further together with our highly qualified print design team. This is a full time in house temporary position located in Stockholm.
In this role, your passion for commercial, forward-thinking fashion truly shines. You instinctively spot emerging trends and turn them into desirable prints and with global appeal. With creativity at your core, you’re constantly reimagining possibilities, embracing new perspectives, and thriving in a fast-paced, ever-evolving environment. This is an exciting opportunity to grow, innovate, and make a real impact alongside a global design community.
As a Print Designer you will be part of a print design studio environment working closely together with a print lead as well as other print designers for our Kids Boy and Young Boy collections. You will have a close collaboration within the print team as well as with a cross functional team, including product designer, product manager, product developer, and external license holders to create our collections.
Your responsibility will be designing into full print stories connected to the assortment vision owning the print design process, with a clear understanding of putting together artworks as well as the technical & administrative aspects. You will be responsible for driving & designing creative, fashion forward and commercial prints, both own graphic as well as license for our global kids customers.
What you'll do:
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Identify and design key fashion prints, graphics, and print stories, relevant for the target customer and in line with the visual goal and the assortment strategy
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Collaborate with the assortment teams to make sure the print fits the purpose and product
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Ensuring correct specifications (print artwork) needed to make the print
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Reviewing print samples/prototypes/strike-offs, revise if necessary
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You will work simultaneously on different print ideas/stories and able to work in a fast pace. This requires high energy and flexibility, strong independent drive, creativity, and a constantly curious mindset!
Who you are:
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Degree in textile design/graphic design (BA or MA) and/or equivalent experience.
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Minimum 3+ years’ experience working with print/graphics in a fashion context (previous experience in print boys is a plus).
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Excellent illustration and drawing/painting skills and professional knowledge about placement/ typography/font graphics
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Genuine and high-level creativity & fashion forward sense for global fashion trends and its print trends
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Well-developed sense of color and how to create high fashion and commercial color combinations always keeping the garment in mind
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Well-developed print and graphics design skills; Ability to create commercial and attractive prints that fit well with the intended product
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High knowledge of different print and manufacturing techniques & processes.
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Solid and fast skills in Adobe Creative Suite programs. 3D CLO work experience is meriting
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Strong communication skills and flexible approach
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Thrives as a team player and brings diverse and global perspectives
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You are used to a fast-paced ever-changing work environment working in an organized, structured manner
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Fluent in English
Additional Information
This position is a full-time temporary role based in our Head Office in Stockholm. You will report to the department Print Manager.
Please note our Designers are based in our HQ in Stockholm, Sweden. If you are not already based here we would need you to be able to relocate as part of a requirement for these roles. We have a dedicated relocation team to make this as smooth as possible.
If your experience, skills, and ambitions are right for this role, please send your application asap including CV and relevant portfolio work (pdf max 10mb/uploading) Portfolio should include vision/mood boards, full design process and final collections and products from a variety of fashion design projects. All documents should be in English. Please ensure to include some work clearly relatable to the aspirational H&M Women’s target customer. We would like see work that shows your creative aspirational side and your sense for commercial fashion.
For any internal applicants please have a dialogue with your current manager before applying.
Benefits:
We offer all our employees at H&M Group attractive benefits with extensive development opportunities around the globe. All our employees receive a staff discount card, usable on all our H&M Group brands in stores and online. Brands covered by the discount are H&M (Beauty and Move included), COS, Weekday, Monki, H&M HOME, & Other Stories, ARKET. In addition to our staff discount, all our employees are included in our H&M Incentive Program – HIP. You can read more about our H&M Incentive Program here.
In addition to our global benefits, all our local markets offer different competitive perks and benefits. Please note that they may differ between employment type and countries.
Inclusion & Diversity
H&M is a part of H&M Group. At H&M Group, we’re determined to create and maintain inclusive, diverse, and equitable workplaces throughout our organization. Our teams should consist of a variety of people that share and combine their knowledge, experience, and ideas. Having a diverse workforce leads to a positive impact on how we address challenges, on what we perceive possible and on how we choose to relate to our colleagues and customers all over the world. Hence all diversity dimensions are taken into consideration in our recruitment process. We strive to have a fair and equal process and therefore kindly ask you not to attach a cover letter in your application as they often contain information that easily can trigger unintentional biases.
